The End Of The Tour, A24’s Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel starrer, got off to a solid beginning with a launch in 4 theaters, one of a handful of new specialty movies this weekend. A couple of high profile Sundance docs also performed well in their openings. Magnolia’s Gore Vidal/William F. Buckley…

“The pinnacle of billions of years of evolution”? The cosmic implications are endless. Umm, in this case make that comic implications. What sounds like the computer voice usually identified with Stephen Hawking sets up the return of supermodel Derek Zoolander aka Ben Stiller, who directs from…

All seven of THR's Emmy season roundtables will air on the cable channel and stream at THR's website leading up to the Sept. 20 Primetime Emmys. It airs at 11 a.m. ET/PT on cable, and at 8 a.m. PT on satellite systems nationwide.

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades a
t Daily Variety.
In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.
BART: Nine years ago I was invited to a lavish cocktail party to celebrate the appointment of Tom Cruise as…

When President Obama went on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” recently, he spent much of the half-hour highlighting the merits of the deal with Iran to limit that country’s nuclear program. That drew criticism from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who said Obama’s appearance lacked class, as he “goes on…

Channing Tatum, long touted to star in the
X-Men spinoff
Gambit, closed his deal. Is that a story? The only qualification was that one outlet, hearing the same rumor as every other outlet, ran a big misleading headline saying Tatum would drop out of the film, though in the story got only as…

Curious George returns to PBS Kids August 17 in his third feature-length adventure
Curious George 3: Back To The Jungle, featuring the voices of John Goodman and Angela Bassett and music by the Plain White Ts, the network announced at TCA Saturday. Also announced were new episodes of the…

On Disney Channel's
K.C. Undercover, 18-year-old actress Zendaya plays K.C. Cooper, the daughter of African American spies. On the show, K.C. is black; her mother is black; her father is black; her nerdy brother is black; her robot sister is black; and her grandfather is black. But her main stunt…

Like passengers who overpaid for tickets to escape war-ravaged Shanghai on the Taiwan-bound liner Taiping in 1949, only to end up on a sinking ship, audiences get a pretty lousy deal with John Woo’s “The Crossing II,” an inert follow-up that doesn’t deliver enough visual or emotional payoff in…